That means for two years in a row, not enough students in the schools scored high enough on state tests to satisfy the federal No Child Left Behind education act.

The state
Department of Education
released the list of schools that satisfied the federal law based on the 2004 Connecticut Mastery Test results.

The state required 57 percent of all students to be at the proficient level in reading and 65 percent to be proficient in mathematics on the CMT. The state also requires subgroups of students to reach the same levels.

At Sarah Noble is only 51 percent of the students with disabilities reached proficiency in reading and only 59 percent were proficient in math.

At Rogers Park just 61 percent of male Hispanic eighth-graders reached proficiency in math for the past two years.
Bethel
Bethel takes step to prevent

flooding in downtown

The town is looking at a number of short- and long-range solutions to a flooding problem apparently caused by streetscape improvements on nearby Main Street six years ago. Main Street slopes downhill toward the square.

The immediate plan is for the town to install extra storm water drains along roadways - perhaps Main Street - to intercept some of the water that flows down to the square. "We'll divert water before it gets to Barnum," said town engineer Andrew Morosky.

Test pits must be dug, said Morosky, to pinpoint the location of the underground drainage pipe and to determine the best places for storm drains.

Selectmen also authorized hiring an outside consultant to do a study to find short- and long-term solutions to the flooding.

"It's about time," said
Chamber of Commerce
president
Pat Smithwick
. "All small businesses have a tough time without having to lose customers because of flooding."
Danbury
Danbury overhaul top posts

on emergency response team

The fire chief has been given the top responsibility for managing a team that would respond to disasters - and making sure no crisis overwhelms city responders.

Chief
Peter Siecienski
said the new structure would also bring members of many departments together when disaster strikes, whether it is a hurricane or flood, or a terrorist attack here or in New York. The railroads and Interstate 84, which are used to move hazardous materials, also pose dangers.

Paul Estefan
, who before the change ran the city's response to most emergencies, will be second-in-command in the new structure.

The new set-up will be more formal and should prepare the city to respond in a fully coordinated way to the largest threats, said Mayor
Mark Boughton
.
Brookfield
Brookfield High project faces

more delays due to bids

The high school renovation project is within budget, but may take longer to start than town officials hoped, according to construction managers.

The high school renovations are budgeted at $31 million, but when the bids came in, the total cost of the project was $3.9 million more.

But construction managers and architects chipped away last week on some aspects of the project, such as locker rooms, lunch rooms, heating and air conditioning.

The problem is now the state will have to review the project again, which could delay construction by another three to four months,
William Mead
told the building commission Tuesday. Mead is project manager with the architect firm Jeter,
Cook Jepson
of Hartford.

First Selectman Jerry Murphy is hopeful the state review won't be as in-depth as previous reviews.

"We hope it's done in a timely fashion," Murphy said. "It's already been reviewed and we hope we can make it nice and quick, in four to six weeks or less."